kitler
There's a site for everything...
July 12, 2006
July 06, 2006
jesus will survive
I'll probably burn in hell for this, but hey, I didn't shoot it:
July 04, 2006
you talkin' to us?
Happy 4th
July 01, 2006
bar brat q
After dropping S off at LAX (off to various bits of Europe), the boy and I continued on south to a farewell bbq for a Pelican. The sad story is that Shawn and his family moved out here from Indiana as his company was setting up a new operation in Irvine. After being here two week, the company said, "just kidding", and told him they were moving everything (including million $ lathes) back to Indiana. Nice. So a group of up gathered at Ralph's house in Ranch Santa Margarita (hey, there's a lake there) to eat brats and toast the family. Welcome to California, now go home!
June 08, 2006
disorder in the court
Reputed to be actual quotes from the courtroom. Apologies to the attorneys I know :-p
ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active?
WITNESS: No, I just lie there.
June 07, 2006
what's in your game?
I wonder if registration to this conference is covered in on of my grant budgets...
June 05, 2006
the negro space program
Yes another part of history denied by the government...
"it's cold as f*ck up here..."
June 01, 2006
kathy loved renee
I'm not a big comic fan, but a gay batwoman? 5'10" of pure lipstick lesbian superhero...
May 22, 2006
the force is strong in this one
Got a new MacBook? Need to defend yourself from the dark (or light) side? Well, lucky for you the solution is at hand.
May 18, 2006
you will be served
May 12, 2006
the real lord
of the dance that is...
May 10, 2006
chose your daddy
Women can work out whether a man will make a good father just by looking at his face, research shows. Simply studying a photograph can give them subconscious clues that he likes children - and would therefore be a good long-term partner. Scientists behind the discovery believe it adds an important dimension to knowledge about mate selection among humans. Experts say women judge a man on his genetic quality and also his willingness to be a good parent for her offspring.
more @ Daily Mail
May 09, 2006
draw your own
Create your own South Park character. Does this violate copyright?
May 04, 2006
but can she cook?
Just what we need...a female android. South Korea debuted an android featuring a woman’s body and capable of expressing human emotions, following movements and communicating in Korean. The 160 centimeter-tall EveR-1 weighs 50 kilograms and has facial and physical features of a Korean woman in her early 20s, KITECH said. It can recognize 400 Korean words, and can answer questions both verbally and through facial emotions, according to KITECH.
May 01, 2006
the moon landings were faked?!?
Finally, proof that it was all a big hoax...
April 24, 2006
old and tired
Well, finally made it back into kung fu class tonight. A long layoff what with Shanghai and racing. And barely made it today what with meetings and class and quick road trips. My hip is still tender and was giving me pause, and so was my out-of-shape wind. Uggh. Then we did this tiger set where you spin around. From the road trip I got sorta carsick trying to email while riding. The spinning tiger stuff sunk me. Barely made it through the rest of class. Then come home and collapse. Hopefully Saturday will be better...
April 20, 2006
adults as kids
I'm moderator at the off topic board of Pelican Parts. Lately the natives have been restless, as there was a bet, then the loser stopped payment on the check, then all hell broke loose. And its gotten nasty, and now people are complaining to me (the moderator) about asinine stuff. Why do grown men act like children? Probably because they can...
March 31, 2006
who is this guy?
latest head shots for work...or at least two of the choices. i'm old...
March 30, 2006
guilty?
Do they look guilty of something? I have to wonder...what were they doing with the cell phone?!?
motrin we are a go
My head hurts. It usually doesn't hurt. Coffee didn't help. Motrin did, but it's wearing off. I need to take some more.
Exciting, eh?
March 27, 2006
note to credit union: #&%@#!!!
Thanks for taking my $7K check and holding it. But not releasing my visa card for use. No really, I don't need to pay my motorcycle insurance. It's fine. No worries, can you just up my limit then. What's that? I have to come in person and fill out another application? Interesting...you've got a bunch of money in your bank, I pay my card off every month, and you can't up my limit over the phone? Thanks...no, I mean that.
March 19, 2006
chicken dance
March 13, 2006
chef goes whack
Some people can't take a joke. Bummer. Oh well, Shaft and Tom can party on...
March 09, 2006
i'm commercial
more to come...
February 28, 2006
maybe stewie wins
bill v. david
rocket man or hooked?
You make the call...
February 27, 2006
ferrari strikes back
Perhaps you remember this post about my friend who picked up the hose from a wrecked Ferrari Enzo and was selling it on ebay (with hilarious results). Well, it looks like Ferrari didn't really like the auction, so eBay pulled it. Frickin' eye-talians! No pasta for me tonight!
February 22, 2006
odd links
February 21, 2006
February 18, 2006
she's pretty (again)
As my friend Jack says, "I'm a sucker for track photography." Here's the silver one at the last POC STS event (courtesty of Backdraft Photography). Hopefully in a couple of months the suspension mods will cure the body roll you see in the photo and a couple of seconds will be trimmed off the lap times. Let's hope so, because IP class is significantly quicker than II. Much work to do...especially on the driver.
February 17, 2006
an organ-ized diet?
I wonder if this stuff is "hard" to eat?
- the male organs of ox and snake - dog's penis, garnished with a plum
February 16, 2006
cough cough
So I get the call at about 10:30am. The nurse at the boy's school. He's coughing. He's sick. Please come pick him up. So I cancel my meetings and do so. Of course not a single cough the rest of the day or evening. Hmm...
February 14, 2006
slime bot
February 09, 2006
carded?
OK...I like to think that I look pretty good for my age. I workout and am blessed with good genes (thanks dad!). But I also am a realist, see the gray hair (plenty) and the hairline that is slowly retreating. But during '06 I have been carded not once, but *twice* while trying to buy alcohol. Once at the Salt Lake City airport, and the other time at Trader Joes.
Thanks for the compliments people...I take 'em where I can get 'em.
February 06, 2006
ad-free
Well, I don't know about you, but I felt a little ill each time I saw the google ads on my site. So I canned them. Experiment over. We're ad-free. Enjoy. And just say "no" to the new borg...
January 31, 2006
holy ascii!
Star Wars with a twist.
January 30, 2006
west coast, baby
yo, west coast kicks it...uhh....sandy style?
January 28, 2006
northern lights
ufos? No...the lights at ChefDance. Did I mention that industry types are really annoying?
January 22, 2006
coffee house etiquette
OK...I need a reality check on whether this is rude or not. I am a regular at my local Peets...once, sometimes twice a day. I often will meet a buddy after work (around 5pm) and we'll have a cup and shoot the breeze for an hour or so. Sometimes I'll go on a weekday mid-afternoon to write, but usually stay no more than 2 hours, and it is never packed. I have friends who write in coffee shops too, but they don't stay for the whole day solid, and are respectful (and struggling artists, but that's another story).
January 21, 2006
justifiable caricide
Ok...so I don't sleep very well. Usually I have a tough time going to sleep, and wake at the slightest thing. So tonight I actually get to sleep early (really rare), only to have a car alarm go off. No biggie...it'll shut off after a few minutes.
WRONG. Been honking for going on 45 minutes now. I would take my bat and smash it to bits but it is in the underground structure of the apartment building across the street. Best I could do is empty a couple of clips of 9mm jacketet hollow point ammo into it. I'm not sure that would take out the alarm though. Only hope would be to hit the gas tank and have it blow up hollywood-style. But then the fire department would have to come, cops would investigate, I'd end up in jail. Big inconvenience. But who would convict me?
January 18, 2006
tit for tat
Remember...if you're in a tit-for-tat situation with a woman, you cannot win. You cannot break even. Why? Her tits count for more than your tat.
Thank you...I'll be here all week. Try the veal and don't forget to tip your server.
January 16, 2006
shooting acm in romania
Sometimes dreams are just short snippets...or at least that's all I remember. Other times they are sweeping epics. Still others are disjointed, oblique trips....Dali meets Hendrix. So this morning I'm going with a crew to shoot the movie version of a book called "ACM" in Romania. Why Romania? Well, I was reading about it in my "Torque" magazine (for Triumph owners), and it's far away. ACM? Have no clue...there is an academic society with that acronym (Association for Computing Machinery), but no book.
January 12, 2006
wither film
The Nikon Corporation, the Japanese camera maker, said Thursday that it would stop making most of its film cameras and lenses in order to focus on digital cameras.
January 04, 2006
sheraton sucks
Still no wireless. I barely got on during my presentation today, and now am hardwired in the "library." Luckily for me (and others), Airport doesn't suck, so I'm sharing my wired connection. The name of the network? "sheratonSucks"
Here's another pretty picture...
January 03, 2006
wet and wireless...with traffic
Well, day 2 in "paradise." The water is warm, but the wireless isn't, and the traffic was...umm...how can I say this....F*CKED! Decided to take a trip to Hanalei today. The drive back took 3 hours. Evidently there was a brush fire and an accident...and a 5 mile stretch through Kapa'a took literally 2 hours to drive. There is only one way around the island, so 2 lanes is it. Much worse that LA thank you...at least in LA you can find an alternate route. Oh well...good practice for being mellow. I didn't slam my fist on the wheel once. Now to do some prep for my talk tomorrow...gotta work!
January 02, 2006
aloha oops
Well, I'm in Kauai for a conference where I'm presenting at a workshop on social software in academia. And of course I left my preparation to the last minute. I did my notes using VooDooPad on the flight over, but need to hit the network to get the rest of the assets (photos from Flickr, logs from our SSAW wiki, etc). But lo and behold, my tre-expensive ocean front room (the only that were left...honest!) has non-functional wireless. So I'm in the "library" stealing an ethernet cable to get some of the work done...well, and post this. At least the view makes up for it. I'll be largely off-grid for the next few days, busy with conference stuff and lots of sleep.
January 01, 2006
whew!
I'm not quite sure what to say. 2005 was simultaneously the best and worst years of my life. Hmm...that isn't quite right. Perhaps more accurate is that some of the absolute best and most touching times of my life were had in 2005. As were the most difficult and painful.
Yeah, that's about right. So far '06 is a winner. All 3 minutes of it. Woohoo!
December 31, 2005
a tale of two headers
December 27, 2005
got torture?
Back when I was a kid (6? 7?) I got caught lighting matches outside the house. Pretty common I think...most every kid does that, right? I recall having a conversation with my son about fire, the dangers, that he could get hurt, etc.
So what did my mom do? Sat me down at the fireplace with a case of matches. Sat there and made me light every single one of them, one after another. So here's poor me sitting there in tears lighting match after match while she watched over me.
My shrink gave a nice label to that piece of parenting: torture. So I got that going for me...
who are you
So my great grandfather was born Clemente Parashuta in 1871 in Russia. During "war" (I'm assuming WWI) he evidently took the dog tags from a dead German soldier (not clear if he killed him or not) and became John Olesi in order to escape Russia. He eventually ended up in Detroit, Michigan, living out his life as John Olesi.
So who are you?
December 24, 2005
felony tree trimming
OK...so I have a legal question. It's xmas eve. A Saturday. 8am. Suddenly chain saws fire up (3 of them) and tree trimmers start working outside my window. I got to sleep around 3am or so.
So would if be a felony if I broke out the Sig and sqeezed off a few warning rounds? I'd fire them into the lawn so there wouldn't be any strays...
December 21, 2005
hey, I think Leno is talking to me
Attorneys for television talk show host David Letterman want a judge to quash a restraining order granted to a Santa Fe woman who contends the celebrity used code words to show that he wanted to marry her and train her as his co-host.
December 19, 2005
fear and freedom
So i'm in hour 6 of being cellphone-less. It is weird. To think that 8 years ago I never had a cell phone. If I wanted to talk to somebody, I'd find a landline. Or maybe a tin can and some string.
oh no, no cell
Well I went and did it. I left the house without my cell phone. I'm at work now, following an uneventful ride into work. But as I got onto the 405 fwy this morning, I realized that I'd left my cell phone sitting on the bookcase at home. I pondered turning around and heading back, but I was already late for a meeting, so I had to forge on. Without my cell. Oh well, life is an experiment. And in the grand scheme of things, this doesn't even rate as a blip. Unless I have a nervous breakdown. In which case I have more problems than I thought...
btw, the meeting still hasn't started as the boss is late. *sigh*
December 17, 2005
wwxd?
speaks for itself, really...
December 11, 2005
why go to the park?
So today I'm at the park with my son. As usual he is off playing with some kid(s) he's befriended. They are playing a variation of "monkey in the middle" with a big soft ball (almost like a beach ball). There is a woman who is near me, and we are both sitting on a concrete "bench" that goes around the perimeter of one of the play areas where there is a structure and other things. As the kids are whacking the ball around, it goes over towards the woman and bounces right next to her. Now again, this is a very lightweight ball...if I threw it as hard as I could it wouldn't hurt you. She gets all pissy and says, "get away from here, this is the second time you've come close to me, go play somewhere else."
Umm...this is a playground. Full of kids. Wtf are *you* doing here?
December 04, 2005
you...are complex
I was reminded of one of my favorite movie quotes today:
Do you know what you've done? You've taken the greatest woman in the world and thrown her away. I lost her too, but I will get over it because I am shallow and self-centered. But you are "complex." You will feel great pain for the rest of your life. This is turning out to be pretty good day.
October 28, 2005
this about covers it
October 26, 2005
the argument for forced sterilization
Mom and dad should be sterilized, the kids taken away and deprogrammed. I'm all for 1st amendment, but isn't this child abuse?
September 23, 2005
maundy friday
Actually I labeled yesterday as maundy thursday even though we're nowhere near easter. Why? I just like the sound of it. So now this is maundy friday. As opposed to stormy monday.
OK...so this really isn't going anywhere...yet.
September 15, 2005
egad, that's dirty
This isn't going to be pretty...from the Houston Chronicle:
Drums full of hazardous medical waste and industrial chemicals float in the tainted floodwaters. As the water recedes, it leaves behind a sludge so laden with petroleum that federal officials are having trouble analyzing it. Millions of gallons of oil have spilled from refinery storage tanks. And at least one hazardous waste site — an old New Orleans landfill — is submerged, increasing the risk that chemicals buried long ago could escape.
These are the early signs of the environmental destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, a storm that struck one of the most industrial and polluted areas of the country when it made landfall on the Gulf Coast. Along the hurricane's path sat 31 hazardous-waste sites and 466 facilities handling large quantities of dangerous chemicals. What impact — if any — the storm had on these areas is still being analyzed by the hundreds of personnel deployed, including those aboard mobile laboratories and in air-pollution-scanning aircraft.
September 14, 2005
what bush reads
Bush's summer vacation reading
I sure hope he's reading book number one...
btw, the Friedman book is excellent...I'm working on that one now.
August 23, 2005
babysitter flake
This was a new one. I've had babysitters flake out at the last minute, some calling, some not even showing up but tonight was a pisser and I'm not sure how much energy I want to expend on it.
August 08, 2005
root canal x2
What's more fun that root canal? Having it done a second time on the same tooth!
August 03, 2005
blogging is dangerous
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1719505,,00.html
November 21, 2004
happiest place on earth?
Spent today at Disneyland. It was my son''s 8th birthday. We were going to do a big Laser Tag party, but some bad behavior at school killed that plan, so instead we went to the "magid kingdom" with a friend of his and their family. Now let me preface this rant with the fact that I don''t like crowds. As such, I don''t really like theme parks. And I don''t like rampant commercialization. Well, I was 3-for-3 today.
January 22, 2004
man, they're loud
So the band next to us in the rehearsal space is loud. Damn loud. Here we are trying to do some last minute tuning of songs for studio time this weekend, and it''s a non-stop bombardment of 20-something boom-shalock-lock-boom. Man, they''re loud. Last week I threw a minor hissy refusing to play while they were boom-boom-booming along. It was just so loud that I couldn''t hear what we were doing, and thought that playing was actually counter-productive.
I''m such a prima-donna. Or prima-todda.
January 19, 2004
spam, eggs, sausage and spam
So the latest trend in Spam is modified spelling of words. Most of the anti-Spam software algorithms look at word content, and by adding a number or a punctuation mark in the middle of a word, the spammers avoid the anti-Spam software. If only they could use all that ingenuity for something useful.